"better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail" meaning in English

See better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail
  1. Synonym of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick Synonyms: better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-better_than_a_poke_in_the_eye_with_a_rusty_nail-en-phrase-ihCzNB-d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
     
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"
      ],
      "id": "en-better_than_a_poke_in_the_eye_with_a_rusty_nail-en-phrase-ihCzNB-d",
      "links": [
        [
          "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick",
          "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick",
          "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail"
}

Download raw JSONL data for better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail meaning in English (0.7kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.